Inhibiting Intelligence
Conventional platitudes and “safe” research agendas actively inhibit the free flow of ideas that discovery and authentic intellectual creativity or intelligence require. Continue reading Inhibiting Intelligence
Online Success and (its) Information Famine
Integrated and distributed information and energy processing systems are biased by physical principles towards the minimisation of uncertainty. Continue reading Online Success and (its) Information Famine
Information Density
Information density is an interesting concept. Continue reading Information Density
Unhackable Systems ?
Creating an “unhackable” system is a lofty aspiration; systemic closure is an implicit logical problem. Continue reading Unhackable Systems ?
Infallible Machines and Inflexible Organisations
If a non-trivially complex organisational system of any kind or scale is to be considered (even notionally) as complete or entirely self-consistent, it can not also be adaptive, flexible and resilient. Continue reading Infallible Machines and Inflexible Organisations
An Autonomous Science ?
The unfolding patterns, exploratory revelations and emergent complexity of Artificial Intelligence may not ultimately reveal itself to be as useful to us as we (and all our aspirations) turn out to be to it. Continue reading An Autonomous Science ?
Utopia, Dystopia and Technological Forecasting
As the frequency of technological change accelerates, the amplitude and range of uncertainty is concurrently amplified. Continue reading Utopia, Dystopia and Technological Forecasting
